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Bill Horvitz

Guitarist and composer for Bill Horvitz Expanded Band, The Skerries, and member of TONE BENT and Take Jack.

About Me

has spent more than 30 years pursuing ways to combine composition and improvisation and to expand the voice of the guitar with both traditional and innovative techniques. He has led both large and small ensembles and has worked with many remarkable musicians, composers and improvisers. His guitar playing has been compared to John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, Jimmy Page, Roger McGuinn, Dave Van Ronk, John Fahey, and Robert Fripp. Critics have described his music as “meditative, sizzling, earthy, funky, joyous, brooding, gorgeous, serene, and kinetically charged.” He currently leads and composes for the Bill Horvitz Expanded Band, a 17-member conducted ensemble that will release it’s first recording, The Long Walk, in 2012. He also sings and plays guitar, banjo, and ukulele with his wife, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and composer Robin Eschner, in the folk band TONE BENT. TONE BENT has two CDs out: Say What You Will and Angels in the Kitchen. In addition, he leads and composes for the trio The Skerries with Scott Walton on bass and Tom Hayashi on drums and is a member of the vocal and instrumental group Take Jack. He has also composed and performed music for four plays with director John Shillington: Anatomy of Gray (2008), Kingsolver Stories (2010), Voice of the Prairie (2011), and Our Town (2012).